Alfred Nobel Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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But if we have to go for a multinational peacekeeping force, we will consider it positively if it is needed, if it is required, in the light of developments, we will consider it positively. There is no dejection for that.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
